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date: 2022-10-31
title: Ubiquitous, Mundane Magic
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I've been thinking again lately about how we live in a world with ubiquitous,
mundane magic.
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We harness lightning in intricate tiny structures made of sand and metal to
make them think, keeping their own internal time using perfectly beating hearts
made of crystals, sustaining themselves with energy sacs made of solid metallic
acid, communicating to other thinking structures using meshes of invisible
light all around us.
We learn how to harness and direct the thoughts of these structures in
school-how to make them think more quickly, or more creatively, or more
aesthetically and approachably for those not familiar with the arcane,
inscrutable languages used to form those thought-directing spells.
We carry opaque slabs of inorganic materials in our pockets, capable of near
instantaneous communication across the entire world, able to tell us our
precise positions on the planet with the aid of artificial stars we've placed
up in the sky with precisely manufactured atomic hearts that we've calibrated
to accommodate for the measurable difference in the speed of time between what
we experience on the ground and what they experience from their places in the
sky, not to mention any of the other hundreds, thousands, millions of things
the slabs can do.
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